Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus between two young Syrian officers and two Syrian "reactionaries" and promised them $300 million to "stage a coup and make peace with Israel...
...sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...
...wilderness and the tabernacle-matters especially dear to the Essenes. For "when we review all the material in the Dead Sea scrolls literature, we cannot help feeling that the Dead Sea sect organized itself in an exact as possible replica of the life of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would 'reenter' the 'new Land of Promise.' There could be no stronger appeal to the hearts and minds...
Though such incidents "puzzle and at times provoke Catholics," Father Davis says, "we shall continue to look with understanding and even fondness at our historic brother, the Jew." And Catholics would do well to imitate more closely the Jews' "burning thirst for justice." He quotes Jewish Writer Israel Zangwill: "Take from me the hope that I can change the future, and you will send me mad." Catholics view the future from a different perspective, writes Davis, "but it would be well if we could view it as intensely and hopefully...